San Francisco restaurant

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18 Dec 2023

On Death by Productivity and the Presidio Bowl

The boats churning in and out of the San Francisco Bay look all the more enormous from a patio in the shrouded Presidio Park and, with this vista in full view, I remember a sheet of paper on my desk at home. It’s an excerpt from British philosopher Mark Fisher

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Food.
04 Sep 2023

Automat Closed And With It Went My Heart

PHOTOS AND WORDS BY ANDY SAMWICK Thanks to inflation, going on a date these days requires choosing a spot with a lovely ambiance and is consistently delicious but also doesn’t break the bank. Seems like the tallest of orders. But there are those spots in San Francisco, and I was

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10 Jul 2024

This New Literary Magazine is a Gift to the People of San Francisco

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

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03 Jul 2023

One Big Night At This Bernal Heights Fine Dining Restaurant

PHOTOS AND WORDS BY ANDY SAMWICK I have been noticing the growing trend toward tasting menus some restaurants are taking. At Marlena, my companions and I indulged in an exceptionally lavish encounter with the restaurant’s current prix fixe menu. My friends were from out-of-town but had once lived here a

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14 Apr 2023

The Long Road to Opening SF’s Newest Restaurant: Bearing West

Article written by Guest Writer: Sean M. Sanford When I heard that my good friend Jeff Hanford was opening a restaurant called Bearing West in the outer Sunset called Bearing West, I was plum tickled. Jeff has been slinging food and drinks in this wonderful city for decades; from the

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27 Nov 2018

Farmerbrown in the Tenderloin Shut Their Doors

How is that an establishment like farmerbrown could fall from grace in an age of culinary renaissance inside a city brimming with obsessive foodies? The Tenderloin soul food restaurant mixed up the right ingredients for success when they opened their doors in 2006, but a lot has changed in the

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